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ESCA - Dunfermline Carnegie, Away

1st May 1999 - Dunfermline Carnegie, Away

A largely unrecognisable Dunfermline Carnegie side greeted Westquarter for their opening fixture of the East League division 3 campaign. Bolstered by the addition of 17-year-old Australian pace man Andrew Brown (a recent immigrant to the Kingdom), and several disgruntled Fife County refugees, Carnegie proved a far sterner test than previous vintages.

With the Sutton siblings detained en route until 90 minutes after play commenced a re-shuffled top order crumbled to a 30 for 5, chief tormentor being the aforementioned antipodean Brown. A valiant 16 from captain Jim Sharp and a defiant stand of 33 by the belated brothers hoisted the total to something nearer respectability. Stephen Sutton departed for a spellbinding 30 - including five boundaries - whilst brother Robert was left stranded on 21 subsequent to Brown's recall and demolition of the tail. A total of 94 all out in the 44th over represented a meagre return on such a placid pitch, a point proved decisively by the hosts when they took to the crease. Despite a few near misses in the field and the capture of four wickets by Westquarter, they rarely looked likely to thwart Carnegie's relentless surge towards victory, and the winning runs duly arrived with 15 overs to spare.